Cancer

Just wondering...........why is cancer such a beast?? I had a stupid dream the other night about a big black bear trying to get me and the girls. She wasn't like snarling, foaming at the mouth but just climbing through the car. I am frantically trying to get the girls out of the car and into the house. But they are "lolly-gagging" around. Finally in the house and up the stairs the bear just keeps on coming; meandering along, but still after us. In the house she comes so out the window onto the deck we go..still dragging the girls who seem oblivious to the bear!!

So, Amanda looks up the significance of black bears in my dream on a Christian web site!! (OMG) She tells me that this stands for a fear of some sort. That it represents something I am afraid of. YOU THINK?? I don't know if I believe all that but I will say that it gave me some perspective.

I asked her "do you really think men like David and Abraham had NO FEAR?" She said " I think they had fear I just think they had more faith." Well, that makes sense. She and I looked at it like this.............while everyone else chose to stay in their tents, David chose to face his fear and step out in front of that giant with just a sling and a stone. Knowing that GOD was BIG ENOUGH to give him the courage he lacked to complete the task.

Amanda also stated that her pastor said something very profound this past week. "Death has a mortality rate of 100%" - Only one man has survived it and even HE had to be dead for 3 days!!

Anyway, I don't know what all this really means except that I have a new perspective on fear. First, the thing we fear most is the one thing that we can count on happening!! 100%! Secondly, we can either choose to live in fear of things or we can step out on faith knowing that GOD's plan can and will only be accomplished when we face the giants that loom before us.

.........personally......I choose to be a David!! So bring on the bears---I'm ready, willing and able to fight--with just my sling and a stone!